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PapaChaz said:
not a good morning here at all from one aspect. When my last batch of eggs hatched, I turned off the bator and cleaned it out. This morning I turned the incubator back on, set a small water tray in it, letting it warm up to put a dozen OE eggs and the dozen eggs from the meet saturday. So I fixed another cup of coffee and came sat back down since it's raining out and I can't go do much outside, and started smelling something.....

apparently the controller went bad, never shut off the heat element and it just about caught on fire. Showed 118* on the control AND on the thermometer that was inside is pegged. Thank you Lord that it rained this morning and I was inside. it got hot enough inside to melt the plastic trays in the egg turner

and it did so well on the last hatch too......

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Oh no! That's terrible! And after all that work you put into it! Now what are you going to do with the new hatching eggs????
 
I would love to but I don't have the $5500 (plus parts to get it in proper running condition) to spend on bird stuff.


Papachaz ... holy crap! That sucks that the incubator did that but so glad that you were in the house to catch it.
 
Flowerbh said:
Oh no! That's terrible! And after all that work you put into it! Now what are you going to do with the new hatching eggs????
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I have yet another hen wanting to go broody. I wonder if an AM hen can cover a dozen eggs...........bahahahaha

'spread it out honey, you're gonna need it'
 
PapaChaz said:
not a good morning here at all from one aspect. When my last batch of eggs hatched, I turned off the bator and cleaned it out. This morning I turned the incubator back on, set a small water tray in it, letting it warm up to put a dozen OE eggs and the dozen eggs from the meet saturday. So I fixed another cup of coffee and came sat back down since it's raining out and I can't go do much outside, and started smelling something..... apparently the controller went bad, never shut off the heat element and it just about caught on fire. Showed 118* on the control AND on the thermometer that was inside is pegged. Thank you Lord that it rained this morning and I was inside. it got hot enough inside to melt the plastic trays in the egg turner and it did so well on the last hatch too......
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Omg!! So glad you were home.
 
PapaChaz said:
I have yet another hen wanting to go broody. I wonder if an AM hen can cover a dozen eggs...........bahahahaha

'spread it out honey, you're gonna need it'
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LadyWho's suggestion of putting them in a box with some hay seems to be working for me. They all stay under my tiny bantam girl! (Of course, it was a dozen bantam eggs... But the ratio should be the same!)
 

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